It’s not a pretty picture: an economy where high levels of stress and anxiety are normal, where people get ill because they’ve lost control of their time, where marriages are damaged and children suffer. And yet, it’s a picture we’re invited to applaud. Our political leaders idolise “strivers” and “hard-working people”, not “chilled-out, caring dads”, for example.
The fetishisation of work is making us miserable. Let’s learn to live again | Anna Coote | Opinion | The Guardian 9:26am on October 31, 2016